Brian Dozier started the comeback by driving in a run with a infield hit. Torii Hunter added an RBI single. Then Joe Mauer nearly brought the house down with a three-run homer to right.
"I had so much adrenaline I almost passed out," Hunter said of the homer.
That explains it. The Twins looked brilliant in the fifth inning when they stormed back with five runs to tie the score against Milwaukee. They played the rest of the game as if their collective tanks had run out of gas.
The Brewers scored early and late to thwart a Twins comeback attempt and take a 10-5 victory at Target Field in first game of a three-game interleague series between the border rivals. Milwaukee blasted three homers and made winning plays, while Hunter misplayed a line drive that resulted in the go-ahead run and the Twins infield could not catch a routine pop-up.
"The game took some strange turns," Twins manager Paul Molitor said.
Milwaukee scored five runs over the final two innings to win on the road for only the 10th time in 26 games this year.
With the score tied in the eighth inning and Carlos Gomez on second following a two-out double off Blaine Boyer, Molitor turned to lefthander Aaron Thompson to get out Adam Lind, who hit a three-run homer in the third.
Thompson hung a breaking ball, and Lind nailed it to right. Hunter ran over to catch it, and he can tell you the rest.